life is like a bowl of cherries.
 
The new kids said that on an interview tape I had of them. Why the hell they said that (and i believe I can credit Joey Mac w/ that insight) I don't know....And why I'm repeating it, I have an even fewer clue. But there it stands.
 
So Lets see. This weekend has been pretty good. Friday it rained mostly and i couldn't see Rich which kinda sucked but I'm sure i'll go to NYC this year and we'll see each other before he decides to go the Navy, or w/e he decides to do. It will be exciting to see what happens w/ his band tho...
 
Anyways...the rain stopped later that night so i went over Erins and me her and tyke watched The 6th Sense. It was a good movie but I guessed the ending early on. ANd I had done so well by making sure no one told me the surprise for the past 7 years and yet i figured it out like 20 minutes into the movie. Disappointing- but still a well put together movie. Afterwards, lucky and i talked party plans, and then i went home, where we had a really interesting chat about Bug Juice....see her LJ for an excerpt har har...
 
Saturday it was back to work for me...not really a lot of fun but at least it was money. But I got a nice surprise when I came home...Matt and I, spontaneously decided to see each other. So we found a movie theater that was sorta half way for both of us and we drove there. Greg came along w/ matt so the 3 of us saw Dodgeball. That movie was SOoooOoo funny. I really enjoyed the training session lol. Plus it was soo good to cheat and see matt inbetween our weekly visits. :) PS- Greg is sooo White. W-H-I-T...............E.
 
Today I worked again, as i will tomorrow. And i went to Kohls for a bit to check out what they had, since part of my bday gift is for 50 bucks there from my mamma. Then I watched 6 feet under which was once again amazing, and made me cry at the end. I also watched the show after it, called entourage, cuz Alyssa said it was good, and i agree, I like it, Eric is the best character :)
 
Ok i'm off. Seacrest, OUT
 
mood: shooby-dooby- doo-wop
music: pop muzic.

***If you read nothing of this post at all, just at least read the bottom of it, very important comment question!!!****

Good day everyone....it's quite rainy at the moment and i thought what better way to waste my time then to waste your time?
 
After that lovely little post on tuesday, things picked up. Erin and I went to Linens n things and she got a shower caddy. Then we went searching for a slip n slide but we couldn't find one. Never fear tho...we are still on the hunt. Afterwards, we went back to my house and I called my dad and asked him if it was ok if i went down to the beach and saw matty. Surprisingly, he said yes, and soon after i was on my way down the hour and half drive....
 
I only ended up missing one exit, but it was really simple to turn around so it only took me outta my way by 5 minutes. When i got to matts, i got attacked my maggie (his dog) but she started warming up to me a little more as the night went on i guess. I think her eating my sock was one of the ways she likes to say that she loves you...at least i hope haha. Anyways. We went down to the boardwalk and got dinner and some ice cream and then came back and watched Scary movie 3 and My dog skip and then called it a night. It was fun, and i was very happy that i got to see him cuz i hate going more than a week w/o seeing him...
 
The next day we went to Island Beach State Park w/ Nikki which was a lotta fun and we tried to help Nikki overcome her fear of big waves, cuz a few weeks ago she got totally knocked out by one. She did come in as far as she could so that was good. I like hanging out w/ her, she's very nice and I get along with her well...next week is her birthday so i'll be down there for that, which will be fun.
 
When we came back it was pretty much time for matt to go to work...so we both took showers and then i headed back to F-town, and he, back to the Kohrs stand w/ greg.
 
When i got home i went to the train station cuz Rich was coming from NY. That was just really stressful cuz his train got delayed for hoooourrrs and didn't come till about 10, when it was supposed to be there at 6:30. So i waited till about 8 and then he called to tell me it was gonna be longer. So i came home, ate dinner, then went back to the train to get him. When he FINALLY came (lol sorry i just have to bust on you for this Rich :-p) I brought him to his Aunts house and we watched some TV and he gave me my birthday present, which was this cool Roling Stones T-shirt, which i ended up wearing yesterday.
 
The next day I picked up Rich and we met Viv and Meli at the movie theater to go see Anchorman, which was really funny. Afterwards, rich and i went a few places and then got lunch at Panara, where Frosh was there. That was the first time i saw frosh working there which is funny.  And yes viv, he really does have a tatoo...he said he was gonna get another one soon and in December he's getting a car when he turns 18. Ah. since when did he get to be 5 months younger than me? Does that make any sense at all???? no. Anyways after that i drove rich back to his house, then set out to Wayne to go to Alyssa's house.
 
The drive wasn't hard, and not too much traffic...but still we were running a lil late cuz we were going to go see Socratic in Woodbridge for a free show. It was a scary drive there, we thought we were gonna get raped cuz there was this old factory that had all these broken windows and then we swear we saw some boy jump off a bridge...but who knows...all we know is we got to the show alive and that was enough for us. Although we did probably miss like half of socratics set. We saw about 4 songs, including funeral masses which i really wanted to see the most. And "all we are is "lunch" for the sky...." we don't know what he says there, but we just decided it's lunch. Afterwards we walked around until Alyssa's friends Steph and Angela came. It was cool to meet them cuz i hear so much about them through Alyssa and myspace.com haha. Also, angelas's mom is "punk rock mom" and she was really cool too and her and Angela give bands food and toys and socratic is good friends w/ them so we got to talk to them somewhat and i took a pic of alyssa, angela, steph and Kevin from socratic for their "photo shoot" for the midnight society....ay yi yi, don't ask lol. So anyways...we stayed there for a while, just talking w/ them and kevins mom and yes the lovely duane, or as i re-named him d.fo, and then finally left to go to a diner w/ steph, angela and punk rock mom. There, Angela won all these stuffed animals from a crane game they had there...including these two bears that had these random balls hanging from thier necks. It was so odd. But alyssa has the blue bear in her car (blue balls lol) and i think he is the new mascot for the focus...haha
 
There was also a point where they called up Ryan the tour manager for Hidden in Plain view and basically harrassed him w/ pick up lines...and he was drunk and screaming HULLO!!! HULLO! LISTEN LADY! LISTEN! Oh wow, it was a time.
 
So now finally today. I went to the car dealer place again and they fixed my coil problem and now there is no check engine light. I even got my actual plates today and my registration car so i am so Xcore now. lol.  It's also been raining a lot today and wer're supposed to go to the mall so hopefully this happens cuz i want my free panties from victoria secret! lol...
 
Oh yeah, viv left a comment on my last post, asking what the name of my car is. I haven't really thought of one yet. Any suggestions ppl? I think that it's a girl so i guess stick to girl names.  It's a corolla if that helps. But i'm not naming it Adam or Corrine, just in case that's what you were thinking. I'll try to think of some too this week. But leave a comment if u have any ideas... (seriously ppl!!!)
 
mood: tired
music: usher - you got it bad

Hi peoples. Well lucky is a rat and told me to change the font lol. I don't really care. I like my old one the best really. Anyways...the last few days i just worked. Sunday and Monday were my two days of work and now i have off till saturday....woot!
 
sunday i didn't do much, but the episode of 6 feet under was so damn intense that i must write about the fact that i almost died like 38409234 times when watching it. If you are a fan or saw the show,  you know the drama...
 
Then monday night, tyke and lucky came over and we just chilled. Tyke brought an ice cream cake for me, so that was quite nice of her. Then i took them for a tiny spin in my new riiide. Even tho it's screwed up already....lol
 
that brings me to this morning, where i had to go over to the service center to figure out why the check engine light was still on. I don't have to pay for anything cuz any service on it is covered, so thats good. But it's a lil annoying to have this start already. Actually, it's not even a big deal what is wrong w/ it. At first we thought it was cuz the oil was filled to high, which they fixed anyway today, but the guy told me it was cuz one of the coils was...i dunno whatever happens to coils that make them not good. lol. So they had to order the part and it should be there by friday so it better be over and done w/ by then  or i'll have to start kickin some major ass. lol....or just deal w/ it. ahhh it's a neverending story.
 
So that's been my day so far...i spent like 2 hours at the service center. I watched 2 hours of CNN there. I'm so edumacated now. Today is the 35th anniversary of USA walking on the moon.  so do what you want w/ that information.
 
Sorry my days haven't been more exciting. Hopefully the next few days will bring in da noise, bring in da funk. Why did i just say that? yikesah. I want to go see Matt today but a coil gets in my way....we'll see tho.  He's got less than a month before he goes back to school... :( :(  say it ain't soooo. Ok i'm gonna get goin now...
 
mood - restrained?
music - Slick Shoes - Candy (i'm listening to punk goes pop)
 
ps.- yaaay for greg coming back to school OFFICIALLY next semester. My lunch buddy is back!!

There's new blogger stuff so i'm seeing if it will work on my blog. It sure would be cool tho wouldn't it.
 
So this week...heeere we go...
 
Wednesday...i was off. I looked for a car at a Toyota dealer in Clinton w/ my dad. We were thisclose to buying a corolla there, but then they were being stupid w/ the price. It was like 12 grand and then they kept adding things and taking away things...ay yi i dunno. sooo we just walked out. It was funny, but embarrassing. :-p
 
The rest of the day...hmm we got chinese food. And it rained a lot. nnneeext.
 
Thursday I worked...i got out around 5 and went to a dentist appointment...no cavaties again! the rest of the night was just me, chillin alone and awaiting my bday.... :)
 
Friday- yaaay! It was my bday, so yeah I'm 19 now. It feels, the same. I usually start feeling the next age about a month or two before my actual birthday, so it's no big change, but i like the celebration :)
 
So...for the day, Matt and Greg came up from Toms River to celebrate w/ me. We went to the bagel club for some food then to the outlets and they gots a lot of chocolate from the rocky mt. choco factory. At 4:30 we went to alfonzo's w/ Erin, Anton and Meli. Aaaand we had a surprise guest...Phil! Wow, it was the first time i saw him all summer, so it was a nice surprise to see him finally.
 
Afterwards, matt and greg came back to my house and we wasted time while waiting for erin and anton to come over so we could go get ice cream. They came around 7:30 and we went over to thee ice cream parlor even tho we got hit w/ like a flash rainstorm which was pretty scary. But we just chilled in the bakery and talked. When the rain died down, we went over to Grand Slam and did the batting cages and got some free candy and drinks thanks to Anton...so gracias Anton for the hook ups :)
 
Then Matt and Greg came back to my house and Greg went back to Toms River and matt and I just chilled till bed time since....
 
 
Saturday we went to Seaside! who? Well me, matt, viv and Jaimers, and we met Greg, Allison and Alyssa down at the shore. buuut before we left...
 
My dad calls the house at 9:30 to tell me he found a toyota corolla at the dealer in Flemington. So he told me to get dressed and he'd come get me to show it to me. So around 10ish, matt and I went w/ my dad to the dealer and i test drove the car. I liked it...and the price was right and stuff so we got it! Sooo I now have a car. Ahhh. I'm so happy to have my own vehicle. tomorrow i shall drive it to work. It's silver and a 2000. I have to get a CD player for it tho, but that will happen in time. Just to have the car is good enough :) ahh..
 
so anyways, at the shore, we all went to the beach and I went in the water w/ matt and greg. The water was actually nice, can u believe it? Not too cold and somewhat clear for once. Really cool!
Also i got to see allison and alyssa for the first time in months, so u know that made me happy! Hopefully i'll be seeing more of them now, before school that is...
 
Anyways, then after they left, the rest of us went into some arcades and played poker and got some silly stuff w/ our winnings and when we were done, it was time for matt to go to work.  While he worked, the 4 of us stuffed ourfaces w/ milkshakes and then some funnel cake. What piggies :) but it waaaas good! When we were good and full we decided to leave, so we said our goodbyes and Greg drove us back to his house so we could come home to good ol' f-town.
 
so now i'm home and quite exhausted but this was a really great b-day weekend. I got some really great gifts from everyone and I really appreciate everything everyone! Thank you much much :)
 
Ok...i'm tired so i'm just gonna lay down for a few...but once again, much love to everyone who made me feel special on my bday :) love yas...
 
mood: tired
music: Black eyed peas - lets get retarded

Ok so technically this is two posts in one day...but i figured the one below is all like facts and stuff about what my last two weeks have been like. Now i kinda just feel like writing a post to express thoughts and shiiit like that. So....herre goes

Religion. Time to be honost. I wish I was a better Christian. I think I truly have a problem with overzealous people, and so I end up hiding my own love and appreciation for God in public...which in turn transfers into my personal life and thats even worse. Back in school, I bought The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. I didn't begin to read it until i got home from school. When i started it, there were all these like, rules. First of all u are only supposed to read one chapter a day, so it's like a 40 day transformation. Problem number one...cuz i can't commit to things like that. I love to read, but i'm horrible at sitting myself down to go and read. True, the chapters are all like, 5 pages long the most, and it's not hard at all...but i slacked off around day 10 cuz i couldn't find the book. Then i got used to not reading it and i'm now kinda stuck at not picking up the book since then. However, I did find some of the book a little discouraging and I had some problems with it..but i was gonna stick w/ it. Oh well for that. I actually talked to my aunt Liz about that. It's funny cuz i wasn't going to tell her at first that I didn't finish reading it, but then she told me she started and stopped at like chapter 3. I then didn't feel so bad haha. But still...I dunno i should really start reading more of the Bible and educating myself because I think the Bible and it's lessons are really great, not to mention I love having the feeling that I'm pleasing God. I know a good portion of my life I probably haven't...so when I do something that I think pleases God, I feel 100 times better than normal. The problem is I suck at pleasing God cuz I can't commit. Well...I guess I shouldn't say that I can't commmit totally, because I do believe Jesus is real and is my personal savior, but I KNOW i haven't turned to him when I know i should, and i haven't been fulfilling the duties of a devoted Christian...siiigh. This summer was supposed to be about Him too...and now what have i done. Another broken promise. :(

Anyway...off of that semi-depressing matter. Theres a lot more too that subject and if I went into it, we'd all be here for a very long time.

Today I almost cried cuz of happiness....My dad said I will get a car!! He's going to take out a loan (hopefully as close to 10,000 as he can) and then I will put down 1,000 on a car and pay the rest off for like, the rest of my life lol. But it's ok, I plan on working and stuff so I will be able to make the payments....haha I better hope I can control myself w/ going to shows lol. I'll have to make a budget and all that jazz. :) But yeah...I dunno what kind of car i want yet, I won't start looking till he gets the loan and I know how much I can go for. But w/ a little luck, I'll have a car by the beginning of August....and how super exciting is that??? I'm looooving it! :o)

Hmm what else. Lets talk about Matty. I haven't seen him in...10 days. Stupid Long Island. Just kidding. I had mucho fun out there. And i <3 Rebecca so it's great to see her. But i also love my matty so....hmm. He is coming to F-town on Friday. Then we'll be going out to dinner w/ pplz...anyone wanna go to dinner on friday for my bday? Call me or leave a comment on here :o) Oh yeah, but back to Matty....I'm really really happy w/ him. We have so much in common...except for the fact that he might sell me for a car one day down the road....lol jk.
Ode to Matty D (even tho there is no structure) Just in case he wants to know why I like him....

He's so sweet, funny, and just an all around really likeable person.
My mom i think wants to marry him...=:-o
I think he's got a good future ahead of him
....so what else could u really want in a boyfriend? haha..
He's cuddly! Which is theee best. I can't resist a good cuddle. :)
He's so ridiculous like that. (sorry i'm listening to Matchbook Romance)
We like so swing and get caught in rainstorms. ~~-*
We like to get fish and name them Martha and Meatball
...then decide we should change their names
...but never actually do it.
I <3 him.


So yeah...thats my freestylin. haha. i guess? I'm tired I think. And it's just 11:00. I got really cool warped tour shoes. I guess that means i should get my ticket for it too. Yeah i'll get around to it.

*Rich come to Flemington dammit. And that's an order or else i'm gonna drop you from my record label!

Ok im done. peace outtt

mood: anxious
music: Matchbook Romance....um the entire CD.

Wow lack of updatage. It's cuz i've been busy busy busy. Here's the actions packed recap...

Tues-Wed: I got to see Matty! It was a lil crazy cuz i had to go to Newark w/ my dad in the morn and meet matt there cuz he had stuff to do at his school. But after we got done w/ that we went down to TR and ate dinner on the boardwalk and just walked around there. I got a fish! Her name is Martha. She is one of those Betta fishies. She has been travelin everywhere...i had to take her home from TR and then she just went on the trip to Long Island w/ me...but more on that later. OH and I didn't name her Martha after Martha Stuart so don't think that like the rest of my family did. Bah.

Anyways, that night we hung out w/ Greg, Nikky anc Dan by going to Fridays and then Mini Golfing and me and Nikki watching the boys do their batting cage thing..:-p

Afterwards I slept at Matts and basically just passed out reeal quick cuz i was so damn tired!

The next day i spent half and half. In the morn, Matt and I went to the mall for a lil bit. He was feeling sick so i felt bad for him. When he went to work, Greg got off of work so i went w/ him to get some food and then we saw Spiderman 2. I liked the movie, it was a lil wordy tho. The most fun was when Greg and I were trying to guess the questions to the answers before the movie started hahaha :-p Anyways it was good to chill w/ him and it reminded me of the good times we had at the po eating lunch together and just chillin.

So anyways, Thursday mornin Matt drove me back home where i THOUGHT i was in at 11, but i was really in at 10...leaving the reebok side all alone until i came in. Then the assistant manager was sposed to be in at 1 but fell asleep and didn't come till 3...so that day just kinda sucked. When i got home...I have no idea what went down so onto friday.

Oh wait friday was really incredibly boring. I worked. The end.

Saturday- Saturday. LOOOOOONG Island. here's the week:

When we got to My Aunt Liz's house (where my cousin Rebecca lives and my Grandma) we ate and then went off to my brothers house for his 4th of July party. It was crazy. They had the blow up rides like a big dragon slide, one of those moon bounces and this inflatable slip and slide type thing. Then of course they live by a private beach so we could go down there by the water. There was also a good humor ice cream vendor thing so u could get ice cream whenever u wanted. Plus the whole thing was catored so we got burgers, chicken and even lobster...my sister in-law ordered 500 lobsters. Cray-zee. Then my parents were letting me drink what i wanted so i got a rum and coke, a beer and two cranberry and vodkas. Very cool. Oh yeah and there was a band and a DJ. This party was just huge. Then of course there was fireworks so it was a great way to end the night. Here's a pic of me and rebecca at the partay:



Aight nowww Sunday and Monday wasn't anythang special. We went out shopping a little...?

Tuesday...Me, my mom, and my grandma went to my aunt Jenny's to see her triplets. They are getting so big and sooo cute! My mom was funny cuz she couldn't remember which one was which...although i think they all look pretty different. So anyways we played w/ them and stuff and then we took them over to the neighbors pool for their first swim ever! It was cool to watch them in their little floats and relax in the pool. I even took Jackie for a while and just held her in the pool. Aw man...i just love these babies. Samantha I think looks like me when I was a baby...she has a lot of hair on the top of her head lol. And she likes to smile a lot and stick out her tongue.


whatta doll. :)


Here's a pic of nicole too...


And a blurry one of jackie cuz she was swinging back and forth...still cute tho :)


So yeah...anyways we then spent the night over there and got back to my other aunts house around 7 on wednesday. When I got there, Rebecca and I went to Friendly's and then rented a movie from blockbuster....oh boy...

We rented a movie called 13. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes overdramatized depictions of teenage life and wants to make fun of retarded teenage girls. Rebecca and I had so much fun making fun of how stupid these girls were. It was basically about this 13 year old girl who rebelled against her family to be popular and friends w/ this badass girl Evie. Her life then turns into a downward spiral cuz she starts taking drugs, drinking alchohol, hooking up w/ guys (some waaay over her age: Jailbait) and just being a "bad kid" Ugh. Just so dumb...i can't explain it really but if u saw it, you would know it's destined to be on Lifetime.

Aight...so thursday...i don't remember hahaha. I'm sure we probably went out shopping again and stuff like that. Yeah thats right. I went to Kmart and got some bras (woot woot lol) and a pair of flip flops. That was w/ my birthday money btw. lol 40 bucks from gramma... :)

Friday we went back over my aunt Jennys to see the babies before we left on Saturday. She took me shopping and i got some pj pants and a shirt from old navy. We then got home around 5ish...Later on my aunt Liz took me to a christian bookstore to get me some stuff for my bday. So i got the Case for Christ, a necklace, a name plate thingie, and a reliant K CD cuz jaimers raves about them haha so i thought it might be good.

Around ten, I went to see fahrenheit 9/11. It was really good. Almost made me cry a few times. I don't care what you say. Bush is freaking retarded and needs to get out of the office. Kerry might not be the best replacement, but he's the only replacement. So I'll do anything to get this idiot away from ruling our country.

K...now Saturday..nothing much since we left LI today. We had a BBQ tho w/ everyone and then we left around 5. When I got home I decided to pay lucky a visit at thee ice cream parlor and so i did. Then she came over here as did Tyke and we had a bug juice marathon cuz we're cool like that. :-p

So now i'm here...talking w/ matty and stuff. All in all it was a good last few days. I loved seeing the babies and can't wait to see them again. Only bad part was that I missed Matt like woah cuz it's now been over a week since i've seen him :( I probably won't see him till friday on my birthday anywayz...:(

Oh yeah my birthday is on friday. I'm mucho excited. Come to Seaside Saturday if u wanna be awesome and see me. :-p Ok kids, i'm out...back to workin for the bok in the morn....

Mood: relaxed...but not lookin foward to work
Music: Yellowcard - only one